A precise BASE for antiproton studies

The first direct high-precision measurement of the proton’s magnetic moment sets the stage for BASE

18 August, 2014

A German/Japanese collaboration working at the University of Mainz has performed the first direct high-precision measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton – which is also by far the most accurate to date. The techniques used will feature in the Baryon-Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) – recently approved to run at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator (AD) – which aims at the direct high-precision measurement of the magnetic moments of the proton and the antiproton with fractional precisions at the parts-per-billion (ppb) level, or better.